Arts Community

Taking Charge in the Form of Art

Art League Houston hosts its second annual Charge 2016.

01/05/2016 By Jenn Nguyen

Day For Night

We Own The Nights

Houston's newest music fest, Day For Night, lights up Silver Street Studios with supersonic sounds and an overload of high tech visual art.

12/25/2015 Photography by William Geoffrey Wood

Art News

Christmas Comes Early at Blaffer

Art museum benefactor gives $1 million bequest for expanded scope.

12/18/2015 By Steven Devadanam

Day For Night

Electric Light Orchestra

Houston’s newest music festival is a furious and mind-bending blend of visual and performing arts.

12/18/2015 By Nick Esquer

Art

Ties That Bind

The Menil Collection pulls selected works together for a fresh take on collage art.

12/11/2015 By Jenn Nguyen

Performance Art

Erik Estrada and the Fate of the Free World

Stephanie Saint Sanchez’s new superhero satire explores retrocrushes, sexuality, and Latin culture.

12/10/2015 By Andrea Siso

All That Jazz

A Little Party Never Killed Nobody

The Roaring Twenties goes on display in all its decadent glory in MFAH's Deco Nights.

12/08/2015 By Nick Esquer

Art

Art Imitates Life

San Antonio artist Tim Olson presents eclectic mixed-media works at d.m. allison.

12/03/2015 By Megha Tejpal

The CAC's "Advocate Through Art Party"

Hundreds gathered for a live and silent art auction, food and drink to support The Children's Assessment Center.

10/21/2015 Photography by Priscilla Dickson

Science Talk

What Dreams May Come

Psychotherapist Anna Guerra helps artists tap into their unconscious at the Jung Center.

10/06/2015 By Nick Esquer

Picks

Top Things to Do This Weekend: Oct. 2-4

Cellist Maya Beiser at Wortham, Houston's DJ Sun's latest multi-media experience at Asia Society, Silver Street's Biannual Art Opening, Wishing Well dance performance at Orange Show, and Texas Contemporary Art Fair at George R. Brown.

09/30/2015 By Nick Esquer

Art Installation

The Light Fantastic

Artist Anila Agha uses light and shadows as an homage to her native Pakistan in Intersections.

09/15/2015 By Nick Esquer

Art

The Writing on the Wall

Street art gets some love as Houston opens the nation's first graffiti museum.

09/14/2015 By Sara Samora

Art Installation

Out of Africa

Wendy Maruyama hopes to bring awareness to elephant poaching with The wildLIFE Project at HCCC

09/11/2015 By Katricia Lang

Arts & Culture

A Little Bit Softer Now

Japan America Society of Houston's latest exhibit layers on peace and tranquility with I Am Content with What I Lack.

09/08/2015 By Nick Esquer

Art

The Dark Places of the Earth

Blaffer brings back its Window Into Houston series downtown

09/04/2015 By Nick Esquer

Art

Rubbed The Right Way

The Menil Collection debuts Apparitions: Frottages And Rubbings.

09/03/2015 By Katricia Lang

Elements of Style

Interview: Skirts Illustrated

Fashion illustrator Rongrong DeVoe’s career has taken her from video game design to Viktor & Rolf.

09/01/2015 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen

Art

Branching Out

Houston artist Joan Laughlin’s haunting nature portraits go on display at the Jung Center.

08/28/2015 By Nick Esquer